In fact, nations bent on acquiring such lethal weapons no longer have to develop them indigenously.
In this country, many police departments dealing with crowd control are embracing so-called less-lethal weapons.
Sid Heal is an expert on less-lethal weapons and a commander with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
In Oakland, California, the police department is now barred from using a number of less-lethal weapons for crowd control.
As you know, I feel strongly that it would be a bad idea to allow the development of fully autonomous lethal weapons.
This weapon, which is called the Active Denial System, has been developed by the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, in collaboration with Raytheon.
It will be up to Congress to fund programs to assess the safety of less-lethal weapons and set the standards for using them.
But he said he is close to making a decision on whether or not to give pilots less than lethal weapons such as Tasers.
They developed less than lethal weapons - guns that hurt but do not kill - as a means of resolving conflict without causing serious or fatal injuries.
In the end, less-lethal weapons don't mean police use less force, according to Chris Stone, a criminal justice professor at Harvard who worked on the Stern report.
This device, developed at the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in Quantico, Virginia, is a microwave transmitter the size and shape of a small satellite dish that pivots on top of an armoured car.
Yet in a world of lethal weapons, where annihilation could come without warning at a press of a nuclear button, it is unreasonable to expect a country to wait until an attack is imminent.
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The Defence Scientific Advisory Council's sub-committee on the Medical Implications of Less Lethal Weapons (DOMILL), an independent group of medical experts, has issued four statements on the medical implications of the use of the Taser.
While such drugs are still years away, Dr Madrenas believes that knowing how MRSA colonises human hosts and controls its lethal weapons will eventually make it possible to turn those weapons on the superbugs themselves.
And we also need to take some common-sense steps that protect our rights, protect our children, protect officers in the line of duty by making it harder for dangerous criminals to get their hands on lethal weapons.
In the negotiations we were pressed to ban nonlethal chemicals along with lethal chemical weapons.
The sonic devices could prove less deadly than so-called "non-lethal" weapons such as Tazers and pepper spray guns that have actually caused some fatalities.
Whether these weapons will be deployed in other, non-lethal ways or used primarily as deadly weapons in combat remains to be seen.
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Under Rumsfeld's plans to "transform" the military with more lethal, more mobile and lighter weapons, the Cold War-era Crusader has been highly vulnerable to a budget cut.
So a while back the Justice Department funded a study to determine whether or not the Taser family of electrical weapons used by police are potentially lethal.
For the foregoing reasons, an agreement purporting to ban all chemical weapons simply cannot guarantee the absence of lethal chemical agents worldwide.
"Some weapons are so dangerous and some ammunition devices so lethal that we simply cannot afford to continue selling them in our state, " he said during his State of the State speech.
Saudi Arabia and several other Gulf states are believed to be involved in shipping weapons to Syrian rebels, who have yet to receive lethal aid from the West.
After the meeting, the European Union announced changes to its arms embargo on Syria, allowing EU states to provide armoured vehicles, non-lethal military equipment and technical aid to the rebels, but not weapons.
He said some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and in response "four less-than-lethal rounds" were fired.
Some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and were met with "less-than-lethal rounds", camp officials said, but no serious injuries were reported.
Some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and were met with "less-than-lethal rounds", a military spokesman said, but no serious injuries were reported.
In fact, however intrusive or comprehensive the inspection regime developed for a chemical weapons ban might be, it will be entirely inadequate to ensure that lethal chemical agents are not covertly produced and stored wherever nations, organizations or individuals wish to do so.
Frighteningly lethal and insidiously efficient, these bacteria replicate and mutate prodigiously, turning out variants that elude most of the chemical weapons--antibiotics--that medicine has invented over the past century.
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